Showing posts with label Stompin' Tom Connors. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Stompin' Tom Connors. Show all posts

Thursday, March 07, 2013

Stompin' Tom Connors and the Con Stooges


It was a wonderful Canadian moment.

One of my Canadian heroes, Romeo Dallaire, talking about another of my heroes, the late great Stompin' Tom Connors.

Telling Evan Solomon about the day when him, his U.N. soldiers, and about 200 civilians were in a Rwandan hotel under heavy enemy fire.

How he played Stompin' Tom's song The Blue Berets, and how it cheered them all up, had them clapping their hands and stomping their feet, even as the mortars and shells rained down on the hotel.